Although Bangladesh in sexual and social relational sense is culturally conservative and restricted society, several recent studies reveal that diverse sexual behavior patterns and birth control method practices are increasing day by day in both rural and urban areas of this country. Purpose of the study was to examine and explore who and why of the partners uses birth control methods in marital, premarital and extramarital heterosexual relations in Bangladesh. Based on relevant literatures review this study reveal that in premarital and extramarital heterosexual relations male partners generally used temporary birth control methods, such as condom or coital interrupts to prevent culturally illegitimate, unexpected birth and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Although male partners in marital sexuality primarily used temporary methods, females usually used both temporary and permanent ones, such as pill, injection or tubal ligation to prevent unexpected birth, to extend birth spacing and enjoy marital sexual life because of women’s low socio-economic status, patriarchal family authority, and socialization and women’s orientation in social policy. Based on probability sample future studies should be done to test the result presented in this article.

Non-places and Tourism:Towards an understanding of travel
by MAXIMILIANO KORSTANJE

The present paper put the non-places theory under scrutiny considering that there is no place in the world that can be termed non-place. This not only defies the principles of anthropology but also borders the boundaries of ethnocentrism. Quite apart from the afore-mentioned limitations we have examined in this paper, a second point of entry can be how an argument like this has been introduced, accepted, adopted and disseminated in anthropology academy and culture studies. Enrooted in the belief as more difficult to read the better and more credible for scholars, popular wisdom accepted non-place theory without any criticism. With more than thousand copies sold in the world, work of Augé should be critically re-considered.

When considering modalities of citizenship making, we must examine the criteria by which nations and states regulate processes of selection and the relations of power politics used to normalize and adjust subjects rendering them loyal, governable citizens. In our times, the State’s capacity to define cultural identity within very explicit and oftentimes implicit socio-economic contexts and to construct and manipulate social processes enables it to increasingly determine the lives and activities of humans as subjects.

What child has not dreamt of being a pirate? The adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow and his crew of the “Black Pearl” trilogy “Pirates of the Caribbean” have a strong base of fans around the world! In this early twenty-first century, pirates are doing well, thanks for asking. They are actually doing quite well, under the circumstances: In 2005 alone, 205 acts of piracy and brigandage (vs. less than 90 in 1994) were officially registered on all oceans. A figure well below reality, according to their victims: it is estimated that over 30% of attacks are never reported. Small fishermen do not know where to turn. For the large shipping companies, they prefer to remain discreet by not having their insurance premiums increase and not to frighten their shareholders. Yet, surprisingly, International (maritime) law is very strict and precise on the matter. Piracy concerns attacks taking place in the high seas or outside the jurisdiction of any State. In territorial waters, it’s called acts of robbery. Also, it prohibits anybody from entering any national waters (12 nautical miles or 22.224 kilometers) of a State without its authorization, even to rescue a ship in distress. To pursue Somali pirates, westerner’s ships are therefore required each time to solicit the green light from neighboring states, say for example… the Somali state.

Vampires and vampirism: pathological roots of a myth
by MORENO TIZIANI

Many cultures have developed myths and legends about vampires and hematofages with different features and behaviours. These tales have many common elements, as the dualism between “life” and “death”. According to some anthropogical currents, these symbols don’t come up from nothing, but follow a process of transformation drawing elements from real experience, which are intersected in the cultural tissue and are transformed depending on the message they are meant to spread. Vampires include several characteristics referable to those illnesses and diseases which have mostly marked human history, both from the psychological and the physical point of view.

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